Body Quotes

Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written. ~ Maltese Proverbs

Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.  ~Astrid Alauda

Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to God, and your back to the squire. ~ Russian Proverb

You can wash your body but not your soul. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ~ Mark Twain Quotes

Wisdom is lost in a fat man’s body. ~ Japanese Proverbs

Where the body wants to rest, there the legs must carry it. ~ Polish Proverbs

When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy. ~ Chinese Proverbs

When the heart acts the body is its slave. ~ African Proverbs

When the head is sick the whole body is sick. ~ Dutch Proverbs

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body. ~ Saadi

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

What is said over the dead lion’s body could not be said to him alive. ~ Congolese Proverbs

Thick body, weak soul. ~ Iranian Proverbs

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. ~ George Meredith

The sickness of the body is the cure of the mind. ~ Basque Proverbs

The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body. ~ Turkish Proverbs

The mind is the emperor of the body. ~ Chinese Proverbs

The labor of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. ~ Hermann M. Biggs

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.  ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. ~ Thomas A. Edison Quotes

The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul. ~ Japanese Proverbs

The body of joy is not so big. ~ Nigerian Proverbs

The body never lies. ~ Martha Graham

The body manifests what the mind harbors. ~ Jerry Augustine

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. ~ Author Unknown

The body is killed by the mouth. ~ Malawian Proverbs

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. ~ George Santayana Quotes

The body achieves what the mind believes. ~ Author Unknown

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Take care of your body.  It’s the only place you have to live.  ~ Jim Rohn

Sometimes your body is smarter than you are. ~ Author Unknown

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes

One body cannot perform two services. ~ Chinese Proverb

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ~ Camille Paglia

Master and servant — both have the same body odor. ~ Tibetan Proverbs

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. ~ Woody Allen

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. ~ St. Ignatius Loyola

I’ve made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I’d trust to oil my back. ~ Lee Labrada

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it. ~ Lee Haney

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. ~ Jean Cocteau

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie. ~Candea Core-Starke

He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow. ~ Chinese Proverbs

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~ Ken Wilbur

Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body. ~ Sufi Proverbs

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. ~ Irene Claremont de Castillejo

Eating and drinking holds body and soul together. ~ German Proverbs

Easier to bend the body than the will. ~ Chinese Proverbs

Do not refuse the body what it asks for. ~ Mexican Proverbs

Death is a shadow that always follows the body. ~ English Proverbs

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.  ~ Antonio Porchia

Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul. ~ Chinese Proverbs

Better a sick body than an ignorant mind. ~ Greek Proverbs

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.~ Leonard Cohen
A healthy soul cannot live in a dry body. ~ French Proverbs

A feeble body weakens the mind. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

A little body often harbors a great soul. ~ Traditional Proverbs
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